stenaxel Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 Hi My daughter has her whole CD collection in the OpenMG Jukebox on her PC. I have bought her a much faster PC. Is there any way I can transfer the Open MG Jukebox to the new PC? Sony says NO. Yours Sten Axelsen :wacky: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Sorry, I don't think that's possible since it's not possible to play back OMG files on more than one validated PC at once. There is an exporting tool for OpenMG, isn't there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leland Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Of course there is. You have to use the Open MG Backup tool that comes with Open MG Jukebox. It will make a backup of the music database files. This can then be restored on a new PC. The only proviso is that you have to be connected to the internet during the restore process (perhaps also the backup process, I can't remember, but definitely during the restore) so it can perform some kind of validation. I don't know what it does during this step, but I know it does not require you to have your product registered. The other consideration is the backup media. Depending on the size of your database, you might have an issue regarding what you backup on to. You could backup onto the existing hard disk if there is enough space then put the old disc in the new PC as a slave from which to restore the database. You can backup to any other media as well, such as CD-R or DVD-RW etc. Also note, the check out count is backed up also, so if you check in all your music before you back up, you can restore your checkout count at some point in the future, but checking everything in and back out again is pretty tedious. I have done this on several occasions and can vouch for it. Also, kurisu is mistaken, you can restore the backup to any number of PC's. I have had a database on as many as 3 PC's at one time and typically have a copy on my desktop as well as my laptop. These computers are often networked and there is no conflict. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Interesting, Leland. Thanks for clearing that up for me/him, I've never been too keen on the inital SS/OpenMG. :sleep: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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